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Approximately how many times bigger was the 1908 siberian asteroid than the diameter of the chelyabinsk asteroid

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1908 Siberian Asteroid is known to be 130 feet/ 18 meters in diameter while on the other hand Chelyabinsk Asteroid is known to be 59 feet/40 meters in diameter. To find how many times Siberian Asteroid is bigger than Chelyabinsk Asteroid we just have to divide Siberian by Chelyabinsk here we get:

10/59=2.2 = 1908 Siberian Asteroid is 2.2 times bigger than Chelyabinsk Asteroid.

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